Term Papers on Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt

     After William McKinley was assassinated in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became our 25th President.  Americašs natural resources were threatened.  Species like the bison and beaver were endangered; others were extinct.  Soil fertility was low and about four-fifths of prime forests had been cut down.  Roosevelt expressed concern:  ł...the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted, when the soils have been...washed into the streams, polluting our rivers.˛  Rooseveltšs leadership changed public perception that Americašs natural resources were inexhaustible.
     Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, in New York City.  Roosevelt grew up with the challenges of asthma and poor eyesight, but did not let them keep him from his passions.  Summers in Rooseveltšs childhood were spent in the country.  He enjoyed collecting live animals and hunting łspecimens˛ to study.  At age eight, after obtaining a sealšs skull, Roosevelt and two of his cousins started the łRoosevelt Museum of Natural History.˛   The skull stayed on a bookshelf in the Roosevelt household throughout the remainder of his childhood, and items such as bird nests, insects, minerals, and shells were added to the Museumšs collection.  At age thirteen Roosevelt took lessons in taxidermy and started a book-study on mammals and birds.  In Rooseveltšs freshman year of college at Harvard, he intended to become an outdoor naturalist.  Discouragement in the naturalist field instead led him to politics, where his interests could translate into more visible activism.
     In 1881, Roosevelt was elected to the New York State Assembly, and in December of 1887 he hosted a dinner for ten of his sportsmen friends.  The group recognized that the extinction of the buffalo and the passenger pigeon could easily happen to any other species.  A decision to control market hunting and provide wildlife the ability to coexist with man was made with the development of the Boone and Crockett Club.  Founded that night by Roosevelt, the club still exists today with the mission to promote two goals:  The conservation of critical wildlife habitat and the principle of hunting in fair chase.
      In the 1890s, while governor of New York, Roosevelt helped ignite an interest in monitoring sewage treatment and discharge from tanneries and pulp mills.  During his term as Governor, Roosevelt was in consultation with Gifford Pinchot and F.H. Newell, both of whom helped to shape Rooseveltšs recommendations about forestry.  Roosevelt grew more and more concerned over the destruction of the forests.
     After the assassination of President McKinley in 1901, Roosevelt took office.  The first work he started as President was the work of reclamation.  Before Roosevelt even had the chance to move into his new home at the White House, his old friends, Pinchot and Newell, called upon him at his sisteršs house.  There Pinchot and Newell laid before him their plans for National Irrigation of the Westšs arid lands, and for the consolidation of the forest work in the Bureau of Forestry, which Pinchot was presently head of.
     At that time, the United Statesš government had a narrowly legalistic point of view toward natural resources.  Through the General Land Office and other government bureaus, the public resources were being handled and disposed of with petty legal formalities and in favor of private interests against the publicšs welfare, instead of for constructive development.  It was the general public opinion that our natural resources were inexhaustible, and not even the government had real knowledge of our natural resources extent and condition.  The American people had no idea there was a relation of the conservation of natural resources to the problems of national welfare and national efficiency.  The reclamation of the arid lands in the West was still a matter for private enterprise alone.
     In the government, forests and foresters had nothing to do with each other.  All the forests owned by...

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